Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
Autor Shashi Tharooren Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2018
'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires ... laying bare the grim, and high, cost of the British Empire for its former subjects. An essential read'Financial Times
In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. The Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation.
British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor takes demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial 'gift' - from the railways to the rule of law - was designed in Britain's interests alone. He goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile industry.
In this bold and incisive reassessment of colonialism, Tharoor exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britain's stained Indian legacy.
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ISBN-13: 9780141987149
ISBN-10: 0141987146
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141987146
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
SHASHI
THAROOR
is
the
bestselling
author
of
twenty
books,
both
fiction
and
non-fiction,
besides
being
a
noted
critic
and
columnist.
His
books
include
the
pathbreaking
satireThe
Great
Indian
Novel(1989),
the
classicIndia:
From
Midnight
to
the
Millennium(1997),
the
bestsellingAn
Era
of
Darkness:
The
British
Empire
in
India,
for
which
he
won
the
Ramnath
Goenka
Award
for
Excellence
in
Journalism,
2016,
for
Books
(Non-Fiction),
andThe
Paradoxical
Prime
Minister:
Narendra
Modi
and
His
India.
He
has
been
Under
Secretary-General
of
the
United
Nations
and
Minister
of
State
for
Human
Resource
Development
and
Minister
of
State
for
External
Affairs
in
the
Government
of
India.
He
is
a
three-time
member
of
the
Lok
Sabha
from
Thiruvananthapuram
and
chairs
the
Parliament
Information
Technology committee. He has won numerous literary awards, including a national Sahitya Akademi award, a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Crossword Lifetime Achievement Award. He was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, India's highest honour for overseas Indians, in 2004, and honoured as New Age Politician of the Year (2010) by NDTV.
Technology committee. He has won numerous literary awards, including a national Sahitya Akademi award, a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Crossword Lifetime Achievement Award. He was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, India's highest honour for overseas Indians, in 2004, and honoured as New Age Politician of the Year (2010) by NDTV.
Recenzii
Tharoor
convincingly
demolishes
some
of
the
more
persistent
myths
about
Britain's
supposedly
civilising
mission
in
India
...
[he]
charts
the
destruction
of
pre-colonial
systems
of
government
by
the
British
and
their
ubiquitous
ledgers
and
rule
books
...
The
statistics
are
worth
repeating.
Inglorious Empireis a timely reminder of the need to start teaching unromanticised colonial history in British schools. A welcome antidote to the nauseating righteousness and condescension pedalled by Niall Ferguson in his 2003 bookEmpire
His writing is a delight and he seldom misses his target ... Tharoor should be applauded for tackling an impossibly contentious subject ... he deserves to be read. Indians are not the only ones who need reminding that empire has a lot to answer for.
Remarkable ... The book is savagely critical of 200 years of the British in India. It makes very uncomfortable reading for Brits
Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires. Forceful, persuasive and blunt, he demolishes Raj nostalgia, laying bare the grim, and high, cost of the British Empire for its former subjects. An essential read
Ferocious and astonishing. Essential for a Britain lost in sepia fantasies about its past,Inglorious Empireis history at its clearest and cutting best
Those Brits who speak confidently about how Britain's "historical and cultural ties" to India will make it easy to strike a great new trade deal should read Mr Tharoor's book. It would help them to see the world through the eyes of the ... countries once colonised or defeated by Britain
Rare indeed is it to come across history that is so readable and so persuasive
Eloquent ... a well-written riposte to those texts that celebrate empire as a supposed "force for good"
Tharoor's book - arising from a contentious Oxford Union debate in 2015 where he proposed the motion "Britain owes reparations to her former colonies" - should keep the home fires burning, so to speak, both in India and in Britain. ... He makes a persuasive case, with telling examples
Brilliant ... A searing indictment of the Raj and its impact on India. ... Required reading for all Anglophiles in former British colonies, and needs to be a textbook in Britain
Persuasive and well-founded ... the book convincingly demolishes the nostalgic, self-serving arguments voiced by imperial apologists
Inglorious Empireis a timely reminder of the need to start teaching unromanticised colonial history in British schools. A welcome antidote to the nauseating righteousness and condescension pedalled by Niall Ferguson in his 2003 bookEmpire
His writing is a delight and he seldom misses his target ... Tharoor should be applauded for tackling an impossibly contentious subject ... he deserves to be read. Indians are not the only ones who need reminding that empire has a lot to answer for.
Remarkable ... The book is savagely critical of 200 years of the British in India. It makes very uncomfortable reading for Brits
Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires. Forceful, persuasive and blunt, he demolishes Raj nostalgia, laying bare the grim, and high, cost of the British Empire for its former subjects. An essential read
Ferocious and astonishing. Essential for a Britain lost in sepia fantasies about its past,Inglorious Empireis history at its clearest and cutting best
Those Brits who speak confidently about how Britain's "historical and cultural ties" to India will make it easy to strike a great new trade deal should read Mr Tharoor's book. It would help them to see the world through the eyes of the ... countries once colonised or defeated by Britain
Rare indeed is it to come across history that is so readable and so persuasive
Eloquent ... a well-written riposte to those texts that celebrate empire as a supposed "force for good"
Tharoor's book - arising from a contentious Oxford Union debate in 2015 where he proposed the motion "Britain owes reparations to her former colonies" - should keep the home fires burning, so to speak, both in India and in Britain. ... He makes a persuasive case, with telling examples
Brilliant ... A searing indictment of the Raj and its impact on India. ... Required reading for all Anglophiles in former British colonies, and needs to be a textbook in Britain
Persuasive and well-founded ... the book convincingly demolishes the nostalgic, self-serving arguments voiced by imperial apologists
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***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*** In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor takes on and demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial 'gift' from the railways to the rule of law was designed in Britain's interests alone. He goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India s deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile industry. In this bold and incisive reassessment of colonialism, Tharoor exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britain's stained Indian legacy.